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RUTGERS STUDY: NEW GUN OWNERS ARE \u2018IMPULSIVE.\u2019 NEW GUN OWNERS BEG TO DIFFER<\/a><\/p>\n

Antigun think tanks and politicians push narratives that private citizens don\u2019t \u201cneed\u201d firearms for self-defense so they shouldn\u2019t have them. That narrative has fallen apart over the past two years of rampant rioting and civil unrest as the same groups called to defund police.<\/p>\n

The same antigun collectives are pushing a new narrative to dehumanize new gun owners with the tactic of shaming Americans into not exercising their Second Amendment. New gun owners have their own thoughts.<\/p>\n

New Antigun \u2018Science\u2019<\/h4>\n

Researchers from\u00a0Rutgers University<\/a><\/strong>, \u00a0as reported by\u00a0The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a><\/strong>, saw the historic surge of firearm sales over the past two years and had to do something. They slapped together a behavioral study on 2020 \u2013 2021 first-time gun buyers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat we\u2019re showing is that these people who are purchasing firearms during the 2020 surge are different from typical firearm owners,\u201d wrote Taylor Rodriguez, one of the study\u2019s authors. \u201cThere\u2019s something unique about this group of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Rodriguez and her colleagues at the\u00a0New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(NJGVRC), the Rutgers study showed that millions of first-time gun owners from last year and the first half of this year were reported to have the most \u201cdisinhibition\u201d and thus be more sensitive to perceived threats and have less control over their emotions and impulses.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez is also a partial member of the NJGVRC, a state taxpayer-funded group affiliated with Rutgers that routinely vilifies gun ownership. In a\u00a0blog<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0post about her \u201cfindings,\u201d Rodriguez had more to say about America\u2019s new first-time gun owners. \u201cPeople who are sensitive to threats such as these and who have difficulties with impulse control are buying firearms at a greater rate during this unprecedented time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Threats Such as These\u2019<\/h4>\n

Record numbers of law-abiding citizens witnessed rising crime rates over the last 18 months. NSSFestimated that there were\u00a08.4 million<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0first-time gun owners in 2020 and an additional\u00a03.2 million<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in the first half of 2021. Gun ownership also grew more diverse. A\u00a0retailer survey<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by NSSF in 2020 showed African American gun buyers increased by over 58 percent in 2020 over 2019, Hispanic-American gun buyers increased by over 49 percent in the same time and Asian-American gun buyers also increased nearly 43 percent.<\/p>\n

The Rutgers report doesn\u2019t address these safety concerns. Instead, researchers feign ignorance and focused on broad-stroke, biased and arbitrary psychological analysis designed to demonize lawful firearm owners.<\/p>\n

Training & Education<\/h4>\n

Gun buyers are bucking Rutgers\u2019 \u201cimpulsive\u201d and \u201cundisciplined\u201d stereotypes. Ranges and classes have been filled across the nation.<\/p>\n

First-time buyer Nay Gargano of Tampa,\u00a0described<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0the first time she squeezed her new firearm\u2019s trigger. \u201cThe first shot, it felt like so much power. I finished firing the rest, and the instructor was just like, \u2018You\u2019re a natural at this.\u2019\u201d She added, \u201cIt\u2019s not just for protection. I go to the range, and that\u2019s one of my stress reliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gargano\u2019s not alone by any measure. Geneva Solomon, owner of Redstone Firearms, described the scene at her store as new first-time buyers flocked to safety and training courses. \u201cWe\u2019ve definitely seen an uptick in the class options we offer,\u201d Solomon\u00a0said<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cBefore they would never sell out. Now they sell out two days after we post them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogers Anderson of the Bay Area chapter of Black Gun Owners Association leads training and safety courses at local shooting ranges and described why first-timers were flocking to his group. \u201cJune 2020 \u2013 when the riots were hitting different cities \u2013 my students increased.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was the same experience for Robin Lewis, who opted for firearm training. \u201cI didn\u2019t know shooting could be a hobby, but it\u2019s all about learning. The less you know the more you fear it,\u201d she\u00a0said<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rutgers researchers would be better off concentrating on ways to support new gun owners instead of vilifying them. NSSF does this through safety initiatives like\u00a0Project ChildSafe<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and a number of\u00a0suicide prevention tools<\/strong><\/a>. Education is paramount for all firearm owners and new Second Amendment participants alike. It is far more productive and beneficial to promote safe firearm ownership nationwide than to label and finger point from an ivory tower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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